Re: [HACKERS] make --enable-depend the default

2013-08-05 Thread Tom Lane
Andres Freund writes: > On 2013-08-05 17:59:39 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: >> Yeah, I have alias dev-configure='./configure >> --appropriate-stuff-for-this-machine' on every system where I work on >> PG. I imagine others do something similar. > I have that on machines I work on regularly as well,

Re: [HACKERS] make --enable-depend the default

2013-08-05 Thread Michael Paquier
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Robert Haas wrote: > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 11:10 +0200, Andres Freund wrote: > >> People, including me, every now and then forget to pass --enable-depend > >> to configure (when not using my own environme

Re: [HACKERS] make --enable-depend the default

2013-08-05 Thread Andres Freund
On 2013-08-05 17:59:39 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 11:10 +0200, Andres Freund wrote: > >> People, including me, every now and then forget to pass --enable-depend > >> to configure (when not using my own environment).

Re: [HACKERS] make --enable-depend the default

2013-08-05 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 11:10 +0200, Andres Freund wrote: >> People, including me, every now and then forget to pass --enable-depend >> to configure (when not using my own environment). Which then leads to >> strange errors that cost time to

Re: [HACKERS] make --enable-depend the default

2013-08-05 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 11:10 +0200, Andres Freund wrote: > People, including me, every now and then forget to pass --enable-depend > to configure (when not using my own environment). Which then leads to > strange errors that cost time to track down... One argument against that is that we only suppo

Re: [HACKERS] make --enable-depend the default

2013-08-01 Thread Andres Freund
On 2013-08-01 08:34:51 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund writes: > > People, including me, every now and then forget to pass --enable-depend > > to configure (when not using my own environment). Which then leads to > > strange errors that cost time to track down... > > > Thus I'd like to ena

Re: [HACKERS] make --enable-depend the default

2013-08-01 Thread Stephen Frost
* Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: > whole tree every time, and I trust the results a lot more than I do > --enable-depend. This is a much more compelling point, imv. We definitely still have issues around dependencies not being completely tracked, even with --enable-depend. Makes one wonder

Re: [HACKERS] make --enable-depend the default

2013-08-01 Thread Tom Lane
Andres Freund writes: > People, including me, every now and then forget to pass --enable-depend > to configure (when not using my own environment). Which then leads to > strange errors that cost time to track down... > Thus I'd like to enable dependency tracking by default. Given todays > computi